Lecture topic: Designing the supply chain Networks
Keynote speaker:KANNAN GOVINDAN
Lecture time: 9:30 on July 3rd
Venue: 308, scientific research building
Abstract
This lecture focuses on identifying factors that should be considered when designing a the distribution network, identifying several potential designs for distribution networks, developing mathematical models for facility location, capacity allocation, and market allocation decisions when designing a supply chain network.
Due to the computational limitations of common exact and approximation solution approaches are unable to solve real-world instances of such NP-hard problems in a reasonable time. These approaches involve cumbersome computational steps in real-size cases. The second part of the lecture focus on the application of metaheuristic to solve the mentioned mixed integer linear programming (MILP) model for fixed charge transportation problem.
Keywords: supply chain network design; Fixed charge Transportation problem; metaheuristics
Professor and Head Centre for Intelligent Supply Chain
China (Shanghai) Institute of FTZ Supply Chain, Shanghai Maritime University
E-mail: gkannan80@gmail.com
Research/Career Interests
Dr. Kannan Govindan has a Master of Engineering in Industrial Engineering from Bharathiyar University and a Ph.D. in Supply Chain Management from the Indian National Institute of Technology, received. His research interests include reverse logistics, closed loop supply chain, sustainable circular economy, green supply chain management, and sustainable supply chain management. His research has covered operations management, operations research, supply chain management, lean management, circular economy, environmental and social issue.
Employment
Dr. Kannan Govindan has held various teaching and research roles in a number of European, Asian, and American universities, including Dalian Maritime University (China), Nankai University (China), Tianjin University (China), Tianjin University of Technology (China), Luangwa University of Science and Technology (Taiwan), S?o Paulo State University (Brazil), Clark University (USA), and Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina (Brazil).
Professional Affiliations
1. International Journal of Business Performance and Supply Chain Modelling (Inderscience)
2. International Journal of Advanced Operations Management (Inderscience)
3. Information Systems and Operational Research (INFOR)
4. European Journal of Operations Research (EGOR)
5. Computers and OR (Including Annals of OR)
6. Journal of Cleaner Production
7. International Journal of Production Economics
Honors and Awards
1. highly cited researcher award from Thomson-Reuters/Clarivate Analytics ("one of only 204 researchers to be listed in the engineering category"), 2018
2. Gold Medal for the best Ph.D. thesis from the former president of India
3. Young Alumni Achiever Award for Excellence in Academic / Research from the governor of Andhrapradesh and Telungana.
4. International Young Scientists award from the Chinese Academy of Science, 2012-2013.
Dr. Kannan Govindan was rated as 2nd among top ten contributing author in the area of green supply chain management during last 22 years (Sustainable Production and Consumption Journal, 2017). He was rated as 1st among top twenty contributing author in the area of reverse logistics and closed loop supply chain management during last 23 years (International Journal of Production Research, 2018). Also, his paper titled "Quantitative models for sustainable supply chain management: Developments and directions" is selected as one of the 20 trendsetting papers of the last 20 years. The selection has been made from among 14,617 articles published in EJOR until the end of 2016. Many of his papers were selected as the ESI top 1% highly cited papers or 0.1 % hot papers or identified and highlighted as the Key Scientific Article contributing to the excellence in Engineering and Environmental research.
